Although Silicon Valley is not the world of Wall Street, the air in the United States has always smelled of money. No matter how the other party operates, they will never be embarrassed by money. The cooperation with Lehman is also based on this idea, if you can reach a cooperation agreement with the Hollywood Big, this is the best choice, but it is not possible to reach an understanding agreement. If it doesn't work, then you have to prepare for the lawyer's fee.

If YouTube really wants to go public, many things have to be changed, such as the board of directors, the current board of directors is basically a decoration, and most of the functions are handled by the company's management such as Zhou Shi and Cheng Shijun. The Sequoia people didn't overreact to the company's listing, and the Googlers struggled a few times, but to no avail. Listing is almost the best choice for everyone, Cheng Shijun and Hao Li will firmly stand on Zhou Shi's side.

The battle for the board of directors is the main battleground, and everyone wants to fight for more seats. Seats on the board of directors are one person, one vote, which means that general matters are voted on not in proportion to shareholding, but on voting rights. Zhou Shi has two votes, and the other 5 people have one vote per person, so it is still very safe for the time being. Moreover, Zhou Shi accepts investment and never accepts a veto.

With Shirley Sandberg, Zhou Shi was relieved from the tedious affairs of YouTube. With the great increase in popularity, YouTube has attracted a lot of talents, and the company's technical strength and level have improved, so that the security, stability, convenience and smoothness of the website have been further improved.

Entering January, Zhou Shi's short crude oil still fell as scheduled, and soon fell below $55 per barrel, and his 6,000 short orders also made a profit of about $50 million. Once again, I lamented the role of finance, with credit there is money, but the essence of finance is basically credit, leverage and risk. This operation of his is a perfect example of the great benefits brought to him by the developed financial market environment. Even if Dick Si is extremely smart, he can't compete with him.

From raising 10 million in August, to making a profit of 50 million now, and in a few days, if the oil price drops further, he will have a profit of 70 million. The Suzaku Fund has a bigger return, potentially close to $500 million. But these are really not the things he is most concerned about, what he is most concerned about is that the iPhone is finally available, and Jobs held a press conference on January 9 as scheduled.

The configuration of the first generation of iPhone: 3.5-inch 480*320 capacitive touch screen, Samsung 32-bit ARM processor, 128MB memory, 4/8/16GB storage space, 2 million pixel main camera, EDGE, this set of configuration seems to be nothing today, but in 2007 it was the highest specification of the mobile phone, especially the Multi-Touch screen that supports up to 10 touches, which has changed people's understanding and experience of full touch screen mobile phones.

As Steve Jobs said in his keynote speech at Macorld's annual showcase, "Apple will re-establish the concept of mobile phones. From now on, no one will look at other mobile phones with the same eyes. "Apple hasn't changed its name yet!

Zhou Shi didn't know how to describe his feelings at this time, witnessing the birth of a legend again! This time the taste was full of bitterness. But understandably, since 2004, Apple has assembled more than 1,000 internal employees to form a team to develop the iPhone. There are less than 300 employees now, even if you don't talk about the quality of talents, it is impossible to catch up with the efforts of others in a few months.

The development progress of Guoke and Android systems is not satisfactory, perhaps Zhou Shi's requirements are too high, and problems in all aspects emerge one after another. Smartphones can't be imagined in a short period of time, and the development of feature phones is not bad, at least opening up domestic and foreign markets.

"Is this the phone you want?" Li Ying shouted excitedly on the phone

"That's right, that's the phone I want, and I'm sure he's going to change the world. ”

"It's amazing, it's amazing. "Li Ying

"It's more amazing than our PPT mobile phone?" Zhou Shi was really unhappy.

“......”

"Our processor and baseband chip are still directly cooperating with Qualcomm, and the first mobile phone is directly connected to the 3G network. Since we can't make the first smartphone that amazes the world, let's make the best phone. "Zhou Shi

"yes, I see. "Li Ying

"Apple has shown you the way, and your development speed should be much faster, right? If you are short of money, you will soon have money here. Don't let money delay product development. "Zhou Shi

"You've become big again, but you can't add money like this without limit."

"Then hurry up and let the husk have the function of hematopoiesis!" Zhou Shi

"It's not that simple, and our cooperation with SoftBank Mobile is not going well. "Li Ying

"What's the matter, they are unwilling to cooperate and deliberately make trouble?" Zhou Shi

"No, working with them requires a lot of requirements and puts a lot of energy into it, but the money earned is too little, and some are not worth it. ”

"It's not worth it, forget it, wait for our phones to come out, and then ask them to cooperate. "It's a shame that the world doesn't revolve around pig's feet.

"yes, okay! I see. "Li Ying

"Also, don't treat you as a simple mobile phone manufacturer, I think Guoke is more of a smart device company. The by-products of your smartphone development process can be taken out***, such as MP4 carrying the operating system. ”

"That's not good!" Li Ying

"Whatever, I thought of it temporarily, you can do it. "Zhou Shi

"Oh!"

After answering Li Ying's call, Zhou Shi's mobile phone rang one after another, all of which were calls from the Guoke team, including Li Yinan, who had returned to Android.

Although Zhou Shi believes that this is a subversive product, there are some people who disagree. For example, Motorola's chief technology officer, Padmasree arrior, wrote a blog post after the iPhone was announced, saying that there is no revolution or breakthrough in any technology on the iPhone, and all technologies are present in Moto, Nokia, Samsung, etc.

Even Microsoft's CEO Ballmer said: "The iPhone doesn't have a chance to gain any significant market share, it's a $500 alternative commodity......."

There are also people who think that mobile phones without physical keyboards are simply unforgivable, and that mobile phones with touch screens will have many problems, etc.

Of course, there are still many good reviews, such as someone who said: "The high-resolution screen is gorgeous." Helvetica, a type of font, has never looked so good on screen. Everything is very fast and sensitive. When you drag something, whether it's a slider button to unlock your smartphone or a zoomed-in photo or web page, the drag action follows your finger closely. I haven't found a single element of the iPhone UI that wouldn't be super happy. And it's all true!"

These positive and negative reviews are all expected by Zhou Shi, the first generation of IPhone is not as good as everyone imagined, there is no app store, it can only run on the EDGE network, that is, 2G wireless network, its speed is maddeningly slow, basically the same as the speed of dial-up Internet access. What made it even more painful was that no other operator other than AT&T provided this kind of 2G wireless network at that time, and AT&T's network always had some problems, such as dropped calls.

The only thing that surprised Zhou Shi was that when someone linked "PPAP" to the iPhone for promotion, it caused great disgust among netizens, and some even openly boycotted the iPhone, and what is even more tragic is that Apple's stock price fell in response. Ten days later, the drop reached more than 20 percent. The stock price was close to $75, and when Zhou Shi saw this situation, he naturally closed the crude oil short order and bought Apple stocks.

(End of chapter)